IFS Certification

By completing training, you earn an IFS certificate that proves you have
mastered certain skills at a high level. The certificate ensures that you are a
competent IFS practitioner, familiar with the method’s assumptions and
qualified to use it. Certification is necessary to distinguish you from people
who don’t have the appropriate preparation and those who are still learning
the basics. Of course, learning to be a psychotherapist or a coach is a lifetime
process but certificates show that you have obtained proficiency in the
method.

There are two categories of IFS Certification – IFS Therapist and Certified IFS
Practitioner. They differ slightly and the basic requirements for both groups
are the most important thing here. This division is crucial to distinguish
practitioners with clinical experience from the ones who don’t have one.
However, it doesn’t cover all the levels of IFS training.

In order to apply to become a Certified IFS Therapist you must demonstrate
that:

1. You have earned a Masters degree in a Human Services field, and
2. Are licensed or certified for clinical practice.

FOR CERTIFICATION AS AN IFS THERAPIST OR IFS PRACTITIONER

In order to obtain certification as an IFS Therapist or IFS Practitioner you
must fulfill each of the four criteria (A, B, C, and D) below.

Successful completion of a Level 1 IFS Training Program (defined as having
earned the Certificate of Completion).

Documentation showing one year of post-Level 1/Basic Training clinical IFS
practice (includes a minimum of 200 hours of clinical/applied practice) following
completion of a Level 1 Training (completion is defined as having earned the
Certificate of Completion).

For both the DVD and Live Session Reviews, the applicant must provide:

One-page summary detailing the skills and aspects of the IFS model exemplified in
the session.

The therapeutic history with this client.

Self-evaluation of the applicant’s own growing edges as well as his/her competence.

in the session(s).

And that’s all!
After a positive evaluation of the recording or live session you are to receive
an appropriate certificate and can call yourself an IFS Therapist or IFS
Practitioner.

What are the key skills that any IFS practitioner needs to master? Please find
below the list of skills, which will not only help you pass the exam but, most of
all, serve as a guideline on your learning path: which of these skills you have
already mastered and which of them you still need to work on.

Therapist demonstrates Self Energy throughout session(s) and claims own
parts’ interference if needed.

Listens to presenting problem and identifies key parts involved.

Contracts to work on target part(s).

Demonstrates the 6 “F”s.

Addresses Manager fears and/or negotiates with Firefighters.

Helps client unblend.

Direct Access.

Demonstrates development of therapeutic relationship.

Connects and works with Exiles.

Completes six steps of healing (witnessing, unburdening, etc.).

Retrieval (if needed).

Invites positive qualities.

Integration.

This is, more less, how the IFS certification and training process looks like. It’s
quite simple and completion proves that you are competent to help others.
For more details on the IFS certification, check out the IFS website
(https://selfleadership.org/ifs-certification-policy.html).

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The IFS Polska Project has been started by Michael Pasterski, social skills coach who runs a popular blog, of over 1 million readers, on psychology, education and personal development MichalPasterski.pl.

Michael has accomplished the first level of education of the Internal Family Systems Model and as a practitioner of IFS Model runs individual and couples therapy with IFS.

The aim of the IFS Polska Project is to introduce and popularize the IFS Model in Poland and make it a well-recognisable method of self-therapy and psychotherapy.

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